Capacity Management Contracts

Capacity Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Capacity Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Capacity Management over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 431 629
Rank change year-on-year +66 +198 -120
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 227 284 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.56% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 204 157
10th Percentile £350 £375 £404
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -7.83% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £685 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +7.03% -15.91% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 3
10th Percentile £22.08 £14.00 -
25th Percentile £23.05 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%
75th Percentile - £65.38 £34.23
90th Percentile - £65.75 £42.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% +225.00% -39.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Capacity Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Capacity Management over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Capacity Management in the UK

Capacity Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +77 194 £495 -13.91% 58
UK excluding London +70 128 £495 +7.03% 33
London +42 85 £596 -5.96% 36
Work from Home +89 71 £493 +2.44% 15
South West +44 51 £495 +1.02% 2
Scotland +26 23 £600 +29.73% 1
North of England +50 22 £493 +23.25% 13
South East +7 22 £575 - 11
North West +46 21 £493 +23.25% 10
East of England +14 7 £350 +1.45%
Midlands +22 3 £500 +33.33% 4
West Midlands +19 3 £500 +29.03% 3
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 2

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (15.86%) Confluence
2 34 (14.98%) SharePoint
3 29 (12.78%) SharePoint Server
4 17 (7.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (3.08%) SAS
6 6 (2.64%) IIS
7 4 (1.76%) Apache
7 4 (1.76%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.32%) CMS
9 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.76%) Aligne
4 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.67%) Azure
2 30 (13.22%) Azure Stack
3 27 (11.89%) AWS
4 16 (7.05%) PaaS
5 10 (4.41%) GitHub
6 7 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.20%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.76%) IaaS
8 4 (1.76%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.32%) Azure Storage
9 3 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.32%) GCP
9 3 (1.32%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.88%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.88%) OCI
10 2 (0.88%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.62%) Firewall
2 35 (15.42%) BGP
3 22 (9.69%) LAN
4 16 (7.05%) DNS
4 16 (7.05%) FTP
5 15 (6.61%) SAN
5 15 (6.61%) WAN
6 13 (5.73%) DHCP
7 12 (5.29%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (4.85%) VPN
9 9 (3.96%) MPLS
9 9 (3.96%) TCP/IP
10 8 (3.52%) Network Security
11 6 (2.64%) Internet
11 6 (2.64%) OSPF
11 6 (2.64%) Wireless
12 5 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (2.20%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (2.20%) iSCSI
12 5 (2.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.49%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.05%) Hadoop
3 11 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.08%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.08%) Power BI
6 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.20%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (1.76%) DB2
8 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.32%) GIS
8 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (1.32%) MySQL
8 3 (1.32%) Spatial Data
8 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (20.26%) JIRA
2 10 (4.41%) Artifactory
2 10 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.96%) Subversion
4 8 (3.52%) GitLab
5 3 (1.32%) Git
6 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (15.86%) Public Sector
4 31 (13.66%) Finance
5 21 (9.25%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (9.25%) Telecoms
6 14 (6.17%) Electronics
6 14 (6.17%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.17%) Marketing
7 11 (4.85%) Banking
8 8 (3.52%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.52%) Billing
8 8 (3.52%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.20%) Legal
11 2 (0.88%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (15.42%) Analyst
2 22 (9.69%) Availability Manager
2 22 (9.69%) Capacity Manager
3 18 (7.93%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 16 (7.05%) Implementation Specialist
5 15 (6.61%) Consultant
5 15 (6.61%) Lead
5 15 (6.61%) Microsoft Engineer
6 11 (4.85%) Architect
6 11 (4.85%) Database Specialist
6 11 (4.85%) IT Analyst
7 9 (3.96%) DBA
7 9 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.52%) Administrator
8 8 (3.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 8 (3.52%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
9 7 (3.08%) Exchange Engineer
9 7 (3.08%) IT Support
9 7 (3.08%) Senior
10 6 (2.64%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.93%) LDAP
2 10 (4.41%) .NET
3 9 (3.96%) Middleware
4 7 (3.08%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (2.20%) Flash
5 5 (2.20%) POSIX
6 4 (1.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.76%) CSS
6 4 (1.76%) HTML
7 3 (1.32%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.88%) ISPF
8 2 (0.88%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.44%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.44%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.44%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.44%) React Native
9 1 (0.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.30%) Data Centre
2 31 (13.66%) Private Cloud
3 30 (13.22%) Management Information System
4 24 (10.57%) Replication
5 19 (8.37%) Clustering
6 12 (5.29%) Client/Server
7 10 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (3.08%) CMDB
8 7 (3.08%) Derivative
8 7 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.64%) Market Risk
10 5 (2.20%) NVMe
10 5 (2.20%) PKI
10 5 (2.20%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.20%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 4 (1.76%) IVR
11 4 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 89 (39.21%) Windows
2 46 (20.26%) Unix
3 42 (18.50%) Linux
4 14 (6.17%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.76%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.88%) zOS
8 1 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.19%) ITIL
1 64 (28.19%) Migration
2 57 (25.11%) Service Management
3 49 (21.59%) Disaster Recovery
4 46 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (18.94%) Network Management
6 40 (17.62%) Availability Management
6 40 (17.62%) High Availability
7 37 (16.30%) Problem Management
8 36 (15.86%) Agile
9 32 (14.10%) ITSM
10 31 (13.66%) Security Monitoring
11 30 (13.22%) Capacity Planning
12 29 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (12.33%) Change Management
14 25 (11.01%) Data Migration
15 23 (10.13%) Mentoring
16 22 (9.69%) DevOps
17 21 (9.25%) Business Intelligence
17 21 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.98%) PowerShell
2 28 (12.33%) Python
3 24 (10.57%) SQL
4 18 (7.93%) Java
5 12 (5.29%) Bash
6 10 (4.41%) C#
6 10 (4.41%) C++
7 8 (3.52%) Perl
8 6 (2.64%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.32%) Ruby
10 2 (0.88%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.88%) JCL
10 2 (0.88%) REXX
10 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (38.77%) Security Cleared
2 54 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.86%) Degree
4 31 (13.66%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.64%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.64%) ISACA
7 4 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.32%) MCITP
8 3 (1.32%) MCTS
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.88%) CCNA
9 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.44%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.78%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (3.96%) SLA
3 7 (3.08%) COBIT
3 7 (3.08%) GDPR
3 7 (3.08%) NIST
4 3 (1.32%) QA
5 2 (0.88%) PMO
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (16.30%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.25%) NFS
4 16 (7.05%) HDFS
5 13 (5.73%) vSphere
6 10 (4.41%) Hyper-V
7 8 (3.52%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (3.52%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (2.20%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.76%) Docker
9 4 (1.76%) GPFS
10 2 (0.88%) ACF2
10 2 (0.88%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.88%) RACF
10 2 (0.88%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (11.89%) SCOM
2 20 (8.81%) Ansible
3 16 (7.05%) ITRS Geneos
3 16 (7.05%) SCCM
4 14 (6.17%) Terraform
5 12 (5.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 10 (4.41%) Nagios
6 10 (4.41%) NetBackup
7 9 (3.96%) BladeLogic
8 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (3.52%) VxRail
9 7 (3.08%) Kubernetes
9 7 (3.08%) SCVMM
10 6 (2.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (2.20%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.76%) Veritas Storage Foundation
13 3 (1.32%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.32%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (24.67%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.30%) VMware
3 34 (14.98%) Atlassian
4 18 (7.93%) Cisco
5 17 (7.49%) Oracle
6 16 (7.05%) Isilon
6 16 (7.05%) SAP
7 15 (6.61%) Dell
7 15 (6.61%) SolarWinds
8 14 (6.17%) Red Hat
9 12 (5.29%) Dynatrace
9 12 (5.29%) NetApp
10 9 (3.96%) Altiris
10 9 (3.96%) Citrix
11 8 (3.52%) Hitachi
11 8 (3.52%) Juniper
12 7 (3.08%) Splunk
13 6 (2.64%) Avaya
13 6 (2.64%) EMC
13 6 (2.64%) Palo Alto